SOUTH Africa’s season of injury woes continued on Saturday, with centre Andre Snyman ruled out for the season after suffering a fractured dislocation of the ankle in Saturday’s 34-18 Tri-Nations defeat against New Zealand at Minolta Loftus in Pretoria. “Andre will be in plaster for eight weeks,” disappointed Springbok coach Nick Mallett confirmed after the […]

SOUTH Africa will stage a trade fair in Mauritius from October 12 to 17 of this year aimed at giving South African businesses and products greater exposure to the region, which includes Seychelles, Reunion and Madagascar. The fair is being organised by the Freeport Operations of Mauritius in association with the South African High Commissioner […]

THE chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, William Kennard, arrives in Gaborone on Tuesday for Wednesday’s annual general meeting of the Telecommunications Regulators Association of Southern Africa. Botswana holds the chairmanship of TRASA. A statement from the US embassy in Gaborone says Kennard hopes to emphasise US commitment to private-sector involvement in telecommunications. […]

THE Pentagon has announced the establishment of a new body to focus on African military issues. The African Centre for Strategic Studies [ACSS] has been given a budget of $42 million by the US Department of Defence for its first six years of operations. The administration of the Centre will be based in Washington DC […]

TWO people were shot dead and four others wounded during a shootout between security officers and the audience at a music festival in Kimberley over the weekend. A scuffle broke out late Saturday at the concert, in a stadium in the Northern Cape town, when the 20000 concert-goers became restless after certain performers did not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.30pm WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela, was on Tuesday called to order by the ruling African National Congress over her criticism of the government’s economic policies. At a meeting Monday at KwaThema, east of Johannesburg, marking national Women’s Day, Madikizela-Mandela, president of the ANC Women’s League, denounced […]

NAMIBIA’S hopes of bringing Caprivi secessionist leader Mishake Muyongo to trial appear to be fading as Danish officials rule out the possibility of his being tried outside his host country. Under Danish laws, a citizen or immigrant can only stand trial in Denmark if a suspect has committed a crime in a foreign country. So […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki called the inauguration of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank “an important day in our history”. Mboweni took over as governor of SARB from Dr Chris Stals on the stroke of midnight Saturday at a glittering banquet in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. Stals, […]

CHRISTO JOHNSON, Freetown | Tuesday 3.20pm FOUR more hostages arrived in Freetown late Monday following their release by rebel soldiers, leaving 11 still held, diplomatic sources said. They comprised three unidentified members of the United Nations mission in the west African country and a Sierra Leonean television journalist. In London the British Foreign Office said […]

A FRENCH charity launched an appeal on Tuesday for the public to donate their throwaway protective glasses after Wednesday’s total solar eclipse, so that people in southern Africa can use them for the next eclipse, due in Africa in 2001. The charity Glasses for Africa hopes to be able to distribute the glasses free in […]